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“For dairy and beef cattle farmers, these results are particularly important due to the widespread use of tall fescue and the extensive economic losses associated with animals grazing on tall fescue infected with endophyte fungus." Mary Marchant UK Agricultural Economics Professor

"I wanted our agents to see the partnership effort and the actual implementation of some best management practices." Amanda Abnee UK Extension Associate for Environmental and Natural Resources

“We developed the topics to get them started, and if they want to know more about something we can offer specific classes later on those subjects. The basis topics are things they need to know to run a farm and be successful.” Joanna Coles, UK Extension Agent for ANR, Warren County

"Kids learn about a time-honored agricultural practice that is centered in Kentucky, which is still viable because it produces a value-added product, and two because they learn to communicate their knowledge gain to judges, thereby honing their speaking skills.” Benjy Mikel

“We try to choose topics that most affect children in our area, and the two top ways children are injured in this area are fire and ATV accidents and we wanted to focus on those during Safety Day Camp." Kelley Yates UK Extension Agent for 4-H Youth Development in Fayette Co.

Nutrition may be the most sensible means to develop primary prevention strategies of diseases associated with many environmental toxic insults.” Bernhard Hennig, Professor of Nutrition and Toxicology in the UK College of Agriculture

“As the state's flagship land-grant research institution, we have a responsibility to do everything we can to protect this industry that is so important economically and to our Commonwealth's very identity.” Lee T. Todd Jr., UK President

“The coaches value local knowledge and local culture, and value diversity, and so they’re building the entrepreneurial culture and strengthening it from the ground up.” Ron Hustedde UK Extension Professor and KECI Coordinator

“For 50 years, Eden Shale Farm has been a place for a variety of demonstrations and tests related to the region’s unique geography." Nancy Cox UK College of Ag Associate Dean for Research